Armed fighters in the Central African Republic (CAR) have used sexual violence to "terrorize women and children" as a tactic of war during the nearly five-year conflict, Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed.

Spanish police hunted Friday for the driver who ploughed a van into crowds of pedestrians on a busy avenue in Barcelona, just hours before a second such assault hit a nearby resort, in twin attacks that left 14 dead and over 100 injured.